{"id":70792,"date":"2025-08-16T08:12:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-16T08:12:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/70792\/"},"modified":"2025-08-16T08:12:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-16T08:12:09","slug":"im-not-too-worried-max-verstappen-on-dropping-out-of-title-contention-the-waffling-over-his-future-and-red-bulls-rebuild","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/70792\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018I\u2019m not too worried\u2019 \u2013 Max Verstappen on dropping out of title contention, the \u2018waffling\u2019 over his future and Red Bull\u2019s rebuild"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"typography-module_body-s-regular__ul7F5 typography-module_md_body-m-regular__d9VRg typography-module_lg_body-l-regular__dPa5z\">Max Verstappen finds himself in territory he&#8217;s not experienced since 2020 \u2013 driving at a high level, but without a car capable of fighting consistently for race wins and the championship.<\/p>\n<p class=\"typography-module_body-s-regular__ul7F5 typography-module_md_body-m-regular__d9VRg typography-module_lg_body-l-regular__dPa5z\">On the face of it, he seems to be taking it reasonably well. The 27-year-old became a serial winner between 2021-2024, securing 56 of his 65 Grand Prix triumphs during that period.<\/p>\n<p class=\"typography-module_body-s-regular__ul7F5 typography-module_md_body-m-regular__d9VRg typography-module_lg_body-l-regular__dPa5z\">He scooped up the championship in all four seasons, too. Winning had become the norm. This season, though, it has been anything but as rivals McLaren are a class above the rest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Max Verstappen finds himself in territory he&#8217;s not experienced since 2020 \u2013 driving at a high level, but&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":70793,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[1687,372,6537,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-70792","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-f1","tag-f1","tag-formula-1","tag-formula1","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70792","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70792"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70792\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/70793"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}